Throttle & Tenderness: Poems From a Woman Who Refused to Disappear - Softcover

Boggs, Zanda J.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798244497465

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

This is not a book of quiet healing.

Throttle & Tenderness is a visceral poetry collection that lives where softness meets survival—where motherhood, desire, trauma, spirituality, and rebellion collide without apology. These poems are written from the body as much as the page, carrying the pulse of a woman who has loved fiercely, lost deeply, and chosen herself anyway.

Zanda J. Boggs writes with unflinching honesty about being “too much” in a world that demands silence: about abandonment and attachment, kink and consent, motorcycles and motherhood, faith and fury, neurodivergence and nervous systems that learned survival before safety. The voice is raw but deliberate, tender but sharp—equal parts prayer, confession, and battle cry.

This collection does not romanticize pain or package healing into neat metaphors. Instead, it tells the truth about what it costs to stay—through trauma, through relationships that could not hold her, through systems that demanded more than they gave. Each poem is a refusal to disappear, a reclamation of voice, body, and power.

Throttle & Tenderness is for readers who:

• love poetry that speaks plainly and fiercely

• have survived complicated love, trauma, or loss

• understand that healing is nonlinear and often loud

• believe tenderness and strength can exist in the same breath

This book is not asking to be consumed quietly.
It asks to be felt.

Because sometimes the bravest thing a woman can do
is stay—and tell the truth about it.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798244497465
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 147